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Quotes About Forgetfulness

After getting dressed at warp speed, I actually managed to drive all the way to high school before I realized I'd forgotten my morning coffee. Mystery, intrigue, and naked dreams aside, that didn't bode well for my chances at making it through the morning without killing myself. Or someone else.
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Petrarch also writes that suicides are caused by anger, disdain, impatience, and "a kind of furious forgetfulness of what thou art.
~ Jennifer Michael Hecht
Poor little heart! Did they forget thee? Then dinna care! Then dinna care! Proud little heart! Did they forsake thee? Be debonair! Be debonair! Frail little heart! I would not break thee: Could'st credit me? Could'st credit me? Gay little heart! Like morning glory Thou'll wilted be; thou'll wilted be!
~ Emily Dickinson
I put it in my hat to remember to post it,' she explained, 'but I forgot, so it came with me today still in my hat.
~ Enid Blyton
Her glare was so intense that you completely forgot she was wearing pink.
~ Eoin Colfer
Hey, if you can't remember, don't worry about it. I'm having a few memory problems myself in this place. Little things like how long I've been here, what my purpose in life is, which feet to put my shoes on. Stuff like that.
~ Eoin Colfer
Luckily, he had the memory span of a particularly dim goldfish, so with any luck he'd have forgotten all about the comment by the time they'd completed their mission.
~ Eoin Colfer
Holly klopte op haar zakken. 'Gut, wat jammer. Laat ik mijn superlaser nou in een andere zak hebben laten zitten.
~ Eoin Colfer
Evil is a by-product of forgetfulness, laziness, or distraction: it arises when we lose sight of our true aim in life
~ Epictetus
Kreb vergisst nie die Friedhöfe, wo er beerdigt worden ist.
~ Éric Chevillard
Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Life is like a fire. Flames which the passer-by forgets. Ashes which the wind scatters. A man lived.
~ Amin Maalouf
A lot of times, people send me emails, and then I forget about them, or I never respond to them, or I respond to them weeks later.
~ James Altucher
I can remember weird things from way back, but not what I had for breakfast.
~ Lee Mack
I met Hugh Jackman, and I was like, 'I love your movies!' And, of course, he asked, 'Which one?' A reasonable question, but I blanked completely. In that moment, I couldn't remember a single film that Hugh Jackman had done. So I copped out. 'The recent one!' And that was one of his biggest disasters. Well done, me.
~ Karan Johar
I'm really bad with dates and never know what I'm doing from one day to the next.
~ Mick Hucknall
We have discharged one generation of debtors after another, but we do not find that their numbers lessen. We find only that we forget, when times are good, that times were ever bad.
~ Jill Lepore
Every day, I think of designs, but I don't write them down, and I forget. If only I had an office.
~ Alexa Chung
I don't remember my first two marriages... the details are very sketchy.
~ Ian McShane
I've forgotten the birthdays of everyone close to me. I have forgotten to pay bills, file tax returns on time, go to meetings, and, every week, I forget to put the bins out. But I have never forgotten I want my lunch.
~ John Niven
Men forget everything; women remember everything. That's why men need instant replays in sports.
~ Rita Rudner
Again with the amnesia. This is getting old.
~ Rob Reger
I'm an old man," Thom said suddenly, "and sometimes I imagine I see things that can't be, but luckily, I always forget them.
~ Robert Jordan
When one is happy in forgetfulness, facts get forgotten
~ Robert Penn Warren